Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling offered a similar explanation, although hinted there may be more to it.

He told Twitter user Victor Bilan that, "With matchmaking you must look at more variables than just game code, especially when only impacting only certain regions."

"Regretfully no ETA at this point," he added, on the topic of a fix. "It's something actively being discussed and investigated. Talking to users being affected."

However, such a fix wasn't on the list of MW3 issues being addressed and/or discussed at Infinity Ward that Robert Bowling shared last night.

Blogger John385 claimed the Modern Warfare 3 matchmaking system was weighted to prioritise local players when searching. He then alleged that problems weren't restricted to unsupported Xbox Live regions; he said he'd heard similar reports from Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Creece, Cyprus and Finland.

Bertie is a senior staff writer, which doesn't mean he's old, although he is, a bit. He's part of the furniture here and reports on all kinds of things, the stranger the better. He's a bit odd but then who isn't? @Clert on Twitter.